332 Fubiacece. \Gardenia. 



minent beneath, petiole \-\ in., stip. small, cuspidate; fl. over 

 \ in. diam., ped. pubescent, rather longer than cal., cymes 

 paniculate, spreading, either terminating short branchlets or 

 leaf-opposed (one 1. of the opp. pair being suppressed), bracts 

 numerous, connate, cuspidate ; cal. adpressed-pilose, segm. 

 tooth-like, distant ; cor.-lobes oblong, acute ; fruit \ in., 

 globose. 



Moist low country below iooo ft.; rather rare. Galle; Kottawa; 

 Ratnapura ; Ambagamuwa. Fl. March and April, white. 



Also in S. India. 



24. GARDENIA,* L. 



Small trees, stip. large or small, usually connate and 

 sheathing; fl. very large, solitary; cal.-limb long, tubular, 

 segm. various or o; cor.-tube long, lobes 6-9, much twisted in 

 bud ; stam. as many as cor.-lobes, anth. nearly sessile ; ov. 

 1 -celled with numerous ovules on 3 or 5 parietal placentas, 

 stigma large, clavate, lobed; fruit large, outer coat fleshy, 

 endocarp bony, splitting into 3 or 5 valves along the placentas ; 

 seeds very numerous, compressed, packed in pulp. — Sp. 60; 

 14 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Placentas 3. 



Fruit not ribbed 1. G. LATIFOLIA. 



Fruit ribbed 2. G. CORONARIA. 



Placentas 5 3. G. turgida. 



1. Cr. latifolia, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 294 (1789) non Roxb. G-alis, S. 



Moon Cat. 19. Thw. Enum. 421. C. P. 3617. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 116, 120. Wight, Ic. t. 759 (not good). 



A small, many-stemmed tree or large shrub, bark smooth, 

 pale-grey, flaking off in small rounded pieces, young parts 

 glabrous but coated with a resinous exudation ; 1. crowded 

 at ends of branches, 4-7 in., obovate-oval, slightly tapering to 

 base, rounded or very shortly acuminate and obtuse at apex, 

 slightly scabrous on both sides, especially on the veins (often 

 pubescent) beneath, stiff, thin, bright apple-green, paler 

 beneath, lat. veins 16-20 each side, parallel, very prominent 

 beneath, petiole very short, stip. adnate to base of petiole, 

 connate forming a tube which is thin, truncate, at first en- 

 closing young bud, but after fall of leaf separating at base, 

 and forming a loose ring round the stem; fl. very large, soli- 

 tary, apparently terminal (really leaf-opposed^, on short stout 



* Commemorates Alexander Garden, M.D., F.R.S., who practised as 

 a physician in Carolina, and corresponded with Linnaeus. Died 1791. 



